SEOUL - North Korea's military threatened the South with imminent "sledge-hammer" retaliation on Tuesday, unless Seoul apologized for anti-Pyongyang protestors burning effigies of its revered leaders. The warning came a day after US Secretary of State John Kerry wrapped up a Northeast Asian tour aimed at defusing soaring military tensions on the Korean peninsula and getting China to help rein in a belligerent Pyongyang. As North Korea celebrated the birthday of late founding leader Kim Il-Sung on Monday -- a major national holiday -- around 40 protesters in Seoul burned portraits of Kim, his son Kim Jong-Il and grandson and current leader Kim Jong-Un. Condemning what it desc...
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